"Why I Am Leaving the Empire," by Darth Vader

[WilliamPitt]

'I no longer have the pride, or the belief'

Why I Am Leaving the Empire
By Darth Vader

TODAY is my last day at the Empire.

After almost 12 years, first as a summer intern, then in the Death Star and now in London, I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its massive, genocidal space machines. And I can honestly say that the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it.

To put the problem in the simplest terms, throttling people with your mind continues to be sidelined in the way the firm operates and thinks about making people dead.

The Empire is one of the galaxy's largest and most important oppressive regimes and it is too integral to galactic murder to continue to act this way. The firm has veered so far from the place I joined right out of Yoda College that I can no longer in good conscience point menacingly and say that I identify with what it stands for.

The rest: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5007&Itemid=81

...satirizing this: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/business/a-public-exit-from-goldman-sachs-hits-a-wounded-wall-street.html?hp

...which is just awesome.

[gateley]

1. Dang. I was hoping to see a pic of Cheney with Kevorkian's ghost hovering in the background. nt

[kenny blankenship]

2. Well Vader old pal, we have altered the terms of the deal

pray that we do not alter it any further. (And pray your brains out - you may as well for all the good it will do you!) Because we're gonna keep right on altering it. More money printing, more bailouts, more surveillance, more brainwashing, more preemption, more control. Do you really want to be on the other side?

Where does it all stop? We're Vampire Squid and we don't even know how to stop!